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The Internet is the New LAN
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As we build more and more functionality into both the client and server sides of the Internet, we’re ending up with, well, client-server technology. But instead of a server in a closet up on the 3rd floor, it’s around the world. If Microsoft were to update Visual Basic’s user interface and transmission protocols a little,…
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Alex’s Draft Business Model Innovation Manual
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This draft from Alex Osterwalder is very very interesting… Yesterday I finished a draft for a simple business model innovation manual… The manual will help business people describe their business model step by step, assess its strengths and weaknesses in order to then improve it. I’ve tried teaching business model creation before, and it’s not…
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Business Design Term Alert: “Hybrid”
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Not that Crain’s NY is any sort of reliable trend watcher, but this me-too article on people who combine technical and artistic skills comes with an interesting frame: hybrids. In one word it sums up a natural blend of two or more disparate skill sets and perspectives, and does so with a term that’s in…
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Make Tools: My IA Konferenz Keynote Slides
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In my keynote talk at the 2007 IA Konferenz in Stuttgart, Germany this month, I argued we need to create fewer artifacts and more tools. We’re already doing this, but it’s easy to get stuck in a make-more-web/mobile-sites rut and that could lead to irrelevance. Here’s the slides… | View | Upload your own By…
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When Design Innovation Comes Down to Execution
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Matt, formerly of Nokia, counters the notion that Apple alone has the best touch user interface ideas, but also that it’s not the idea that won that race, but execution… In recent months we’ve seen Nokia and Sony Ericsson show demos of their touch UIs. To which the response on many tech blogs has been…
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Agile with a capital/lowercase A
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It looks like agile software development is having the same growing pains, expressed through semantics, as the design field (or the Design field). It’s the perceived misapplication of language that catches my eye… Jason Gorman argued that the meaning of Agile was ambiguous and was being inappropriately applied to a very wide range of approaches…
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Interview on the State of Information Architecture
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I’m on my way to the IA Konferenz in Stuttgart this week where I plan to talk about the future of the web design profession by learning from other technology-related professions and projecting out the current trends. To preface that, Jan Jursa invited me to answer five questions on his blog, for example this one…
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IDEO’s UMPC Vision Video
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A nice example of what I call a tangible future. I like how it starts with more conventional examples and then ends with others that have believable gestures but without clear intentions, which could make it a good conversation starter between IDEO (the design firm) and Intel (the client).
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Print Media I Like These Days
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The Week is a compilation of world news in a thin weekly magazine format comprised of tiny articles. You can read the whole thing every week and stay current. The Week is smaller than newspapers and with more breadth than traditional weeklies. Monocle might be the best example of a business design journal because it…
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Scrybe invite?
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I’d love to check out Scrybe to try the innovative interaction design for myself. If you have a beta invite can you share?
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Back in NYC
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I’m back in New York after two fantastic weeks on holiday in Europe. If you’ve written, I hope to get through all my emails this week. One observation I made moving through Ireland, France, and Germany was how little the Internet really assists in everyday life. Although hotels appear to be more likely to provide…
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New Classes on IA 3.0, Prototyping, and Managing UX
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We have three fantabulous new classes at Smart Experience, and they’re yours for 10% off when you register using the discount code NBS. Online Event Registration – Powered by www.eventbrite.com
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Online Design Pattern Languages, 2nd Generation
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It’s great to see design pattern libraries like Yahoo!’s getting a lot of attention these days. I’ve been working on planning one for a client recently and thinking a lot about what makes them successful. In short, I think the newer, popular ones are immediately useful, meaning you can directly insert the pattern into your…
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Great Process Leads to Great Products
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That simple idea (hopefully obvious to anyone who has tried it) that great commercial products aren’t simply the result of great product ideas is one I’ve mentioned before in the context of company culture and improving capabilities over time. But compared to the concrete sexiness of topics like the iPod and Swiffer this argument isn’t…